Hopewell Neighborhood (IU Health hospital redevelopment project)

2026

• 2026-06-01 Hopewell South implementation. The Bloomington redevelopment commission unanimously accepts the Bloomington City Council’s conditions on the Hopewell South PUD, authorizes staff to move ahead with plats and permits, and advanced a lot-line adjustment intended to let some homes start sooner. [BSB coverage]
• 2026-05-06 Hopewell South: PUD approval. The Bloomington City Council approves the Hopewell South PUD on a 9–0 vote, allowing up to 98 homes on about 6.3 acres south of 1st Street, after adopting affordability conditions requiring at least 35% of units to be permanently affordable with a 50% goal. [copy of council packet] [copy of affordability memo] [copy of Stosberg memo] [copy of Killion-Hanson response memo] [BSB coverage]
• 2026-04-01 Hopewell South: Postponement. After more than four hours of discussion about permanent affordability, street design, and the council’s authority to impose reasonable conditions, the Bloomington City Council unanimously postpones final action on the Hopewell South PUD to April 22. [copy of Crown Point v. Misty Woods decision] [BSB coverage]
• 2026-03-31 Mayor’s State of the City. Mayor Kerry Thomson uses her State of the City address to press for progress on Hopewell South while six councilmembers are calling for revisions, especially stronger permanent affordability requirements. [BSB coverage]
• 2026-03-25 Hopewell South: Postponement. The Bloomington City Council votes 6–3 to postpone the Hopewell South PUD to April 1, with Isak Asare, Sydney Zulich and Courtney Daily voting against postponement because they wanted to vote that night. [copy of council packet] [copy of Crown Point v. Misty Woods decision] [BSB coverage]
• 2026-03-21 Hopewell South: Proposed reasonable conditions. Before the March 25 council meeting, B Square reports that the council packet includes 13 proposed reasonable conditions from five councilmembers, reflecting concerns about affordability, street design, accessibility, utilities, trees and legal limits on changes to the plan commission’s recommendation. [copy of council packet] [copy of UDO] [BSB coverage]
• 2026-03-04 Hopewell South: City council introduction. The Bloomington City Council introduces and discusses the Hopewell South PUD, then votes 6–3 to delay final action until March 25, with Isak Asare, Sydney Zulich and Courtney Daily favoring faster action. [BSB coverage]
• 2026-02-18 Hopewell South: Procedural setback. The Bloomington city council refuses to introduce the Hopewell South PUD on a 2–7 vote, with only Isak Asare and Sydney Zulich voting in favor, before later enacting an ordinance change to revise council procedure to allow discussion on the night an ordinance is introduced. [BSB coverage]
• 2026-02-09 Hopewell South: Plan commission recommendation. The Bloomington plan commission unanimously recommends the Hopewell South PUD to the city council and adds an accessibility-oversight condition calling for input from the disability community. [BSB coverage]
• 2026-02-02 Hopewell South: Engineering. The Bloomington RDC approves a $424,200 preliminary design contract with CrossRoad Engineers for Hopewell South roads, lanes, utilities and stormwater work on a 4–1 vote, with Randy Cassady dissenting. [BSB coverage]
• 2026-01-14 Affordability financing. After Hopewell South PUD discussions expose tension between permanent affordability deed restrictions and conventional mortgages, the Bloomington city council adopted Ordinance 2026-02 lowering AMI targets for UDO incentives and delaying further action on related affordability financing proposals to Feb. 4. [BSB coverage]
• 2026-01-xx Hopewell South: First plan commission hearing. At the first plan commission hearing on the Hopewell South PUD, questions about permanent affordability, mortgage finance, streets and stormwater set up a second hearing before the PUD can move to the city council. [BSB coverage]

2025

• 2025-12-15 Hopewell South PUD filing. The Bloomington RDC authorizes staff to move ahead with a PUD petition for Hopewell South Blocks 8, 9 and 10, aiming to increase potential housing from about 28 homes under existing R4 zoning to as many as 98 homes under a customized zoning plan. [copy of Flintlock contract] [BSB coverage]
• 2025-12-15 Hopewell West Block 4. The Bloomington RDC hears an Adaptive Commons proposal for Hopewell West Block 4, including the former IU Health parking garage area, but postpones a $125,200 agreement for comprehensive and coordinated design work. [BSB coverage]
• 2025-12-15 Hopewell West change order. The Bloomington RDC unanimously approves Hopewell West Change Order Package No. 1 for street-construction work tied to Jackson Street and related infrastructure. [BSB coverage]
• 2025-11-17 Hopewell East bids rejected. The Bloomington RDC unanimously rejects all five Hopewell East bids for Blocks 1, 2 and 3, whose combined offering price was $6,136,000, and plans a new offering in 2026. [copy of master plan] [BSB coverage]
• 2025-11-03 Hopewell South rezone contract. The Bloomington RDC approves a $145,000 Flintlock LAB contract to shepherd Hopewell South through a PUD rezone process, after two earlier RFPs failed to produce a proposal the city wanted to pursue. [BSB coverage]
• 2025-11-03 Possible police headquarters. The Bloomington RDC approves a $58,250 American Structurepoint feasibility study on converting the vacant former Bloomington Convalescent Center at 714 S. Rogers St., next to Hopewell South, into a new Bloomington Police Department headquarters. [BSB coverage]
• 2025-10-20 Hopewell South kickoff. At a kickoff event in the city council chambers, the Thomson administration and Flintlock LAB present a Hopewell South development strategy built around a PUD, smaller builders, pre-approved house designs and homeownership on the former IU Health hospital site. [BSB coverage]
• 2025-08-04 Existing Hopewell structures. The Bloomington RDC approves a $25,000 VET Environmental Engineering contract for mold cleanup and selective demolition at 714 S. Rogers St. and an $11,500 CE Solutions contract to reassess the roughly 480-space former IU Health parking garage. [copy of RDC meeting file] [copy of master plan] [BSB coverage]
• 2025-07-07 Hopewell West street work. The Bloomington RDC approves a $1,687,319 Crider & Crider contract to build Jackson Street north of 1st Street from scratch and reconstruct Rogers Street from 1st to 2nd streets, while seeking environmental sign-off before construction began. [copy of project review] [copy of Hopewell West final plans] [BSB coverage]
• 2025-06-30 Hopewell South bids rejected. At a special meeting, the Bloomington RDC rejects two Hopewell South bids from Rubicon Construction Group and PSKG and authorizes a Flintlock LAB strategy intended to let smaller builders participate through pre-approved city-owned designs and local financing. [copy of Flintlock proposal] [copy of Flintlock contract] [copy of second Hopewell South offering] [copy of U3 proposal comparison] [copy of Rubicon proposal] [copy of PSKG proposal] [copy of city news release] [BSB coverage]
• 2025-04-23 Hopewell Commons opening. Bloomington marks the grand opening of Hopewell Commons, a one-acre park west of the B-Line Trail, as the first visible completed piece of the larger former IU Health hospital-site redevelopment. [copy of city announcement] [copy of project review form] [BSB coverage]
• 2025-04-07 Hopewell East bids received. The Bloomington RDC opens five bids for Hopewell East Blocks 1, 2 and 3, totaling 3.5 acres with a combined offering price of $6,136,000, from Rubicon Investment Group, Real America, Annex Group, Holiday Properties, and Flaherty & Collins. [BSB coverage]
• 2025-04-07 714 S. Rogers: Possible police headquarters due diligence. At the same meeting where Hopewell East bids were opened, the Bloomington RDC approved $50,000 for due diligence on the former Bloomington Convalescent Center at 714 S. Rogers St. as a possible new police headquarters. [BSB coverage]

2024

• 2024-11-18 Hopewell East public offering. The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission offers Hopewell East—three lots totaling about 3.5 acres near the southwest corner of 2nd and Morton streets—for $6,136,000, with Block 1 at $1,972,000, Block 2 at $1,839,000 and Block 3 at $2,325,000, because the city is moving to the next land-disposition phase after Hopewell South. [BSB coverage]
• 2024-09-17 Hopewell South second offering. The Bloomington RDC approves a second public offering for Hopewell South Blocks 9 and 10, priced at $1,448,350 and $664,030, while keeping Block 8 and the former Bloomington Convalescent Center at 714 S. Rogers St. on a separate adaptive-reuse track. [copy of 2023 offering packet] [BSB coverage]
• 2024-09-03 Hopewell South site control. The Bloomington RDC extends security patrols, reconfigures fencing and handles electrical work as staff prepare Hopewell South for a second public offering, because the city is still managing vacant buildings and parcels before disposition. [BSB coverage]
• 2024-03-04 Hopewell building work. The Bloomington RDC approves a $39,816 VET Environmental Engineering contract to remediate water damage at 714 S. Rogers St. and a $7,450 B&L Sheet Metal and Roofing contract to reinstall downspouts on the Kohr administration building, while the Thomson administration reviews the overall 24-acre Hopewell project. [BSB coverage]
• 2024-02-19 Possible demolition at 714 S. Rogers. Bloomington continues evaluating whether to demolish the former Bloomington Convalescent Center at 714 S. Rogers St., with staff estimating about $60,000 to remediate prior water damage and noting that Renascent’s bid to demolish the building is about $250,000. [BSB coverage]
• 2024-02-06 Hopewell South demolition. The Bloomington RDC approves a $12,100 asbestos-related increase to a previously approved $353,052 Renascent contract for demolition of 10 buildings along the south side of 1st Street, clearing land for future Hopewell South development. [BSB coverage]

2023

• 2023-12-21 Site transfer payment. Bloomington closes on the former IU Health hospital site in late December, with the city financial system showing a $2,500,550 payment to IU Health OCC Health Services on Dec. 21 as part of the $6.5 million land deal. [BSB coverage]
• 2023-10-02 Hopewell South first offering packet. The RDC’s offering packet for Hopewell South Blocks 8, 9 and 10 at 607–723 W. 1st St. sets a minimum aggregate price of $3,560,730 and states that student housing is not of interest, establishing the city’s first private-development offering for that part of Hopewell. [copy of offering packet] [BSB coverage]
• 2023-09-29 Hopewell West alley vacation. A Bloomington City Council staff memo sets up Ordinance 23-22, which requests vacation of two public alley segments previously used as IU Health parking lot areas so the city can replat Hopewell West with new streets, alleys and pedestrian connections. [copy of ordinance] [copy of council staff memo] [copy of BPW petition] [copy of exhibits]
• 2023-08-30 Hopewell as possible jail site. Monroe County officials review possible new jail sites including Hopewell, but the idea does not gain traction at an Aug. 11 city council work session, leaving the planned neighborhood’s housing-focused trajectory unchanged. [BSB coverage]
• 2023-07-21 Hopewell groundbreaking. Bloomington marks a groundbreaking for Hopewell Phase I East on the former IU Health hospital site, where city officials describe the project as a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a new neighborhood. [copy of master plan] [BSB coverage]
• 2023-07-10 Hopewell West plat. The Bloomington Plan Commission approves the Hopewell West primary plat unanimously with seven of nine commissioners present, with Brad Wisler and Ellen Rodkey absent, dividing the former hospital block with three new public street segments and alleys. [BSB coverage]
• 2023-06-05 Hopewell owner’s representative. The Bloomington RDC approves a $479,000 contract with U3 Advisors to serve as owner’s representative for the Hopewell redevelopment, giving the city outside support for land disposition and project implementation. [BSB coverage]
• 2023-05-xx Hopewell Phase I East construction. The Bloomington RDC approves a $13.37 million contract with Milestone Contractors LP for Phase I East infrastructure, covering utilities, streets, landscaping and bike-pedestrian facilities east of the former hospital building footprint. [copy of master plan] [BSB coverage]

2022

• 2022-12-xx Transform Redevelopment Overlay. The Bloomington City Council approves the Transform Redevelopment Overlay for most of Hopewell, creating site-specific zoning standards and eliminating parking minimums for overlay parcels. [BSB coverage]
• 2022-06-22 Phase I East demolition. The Board of Public Works and the Bloomington RDC approve a $588,755 Renascent Inc. contract to demolish most city-owned buildings in Hopewell Phase I East, clearing the block bounded by 1st, 2nd, Morton and Rogers streets for future redevelopment. [BSB coverage]
• 2022-06-01 Phase I East alley vacation. The Bloomington City Council votes unanimously to vacate parts of two alleys in the block bounded by Morton, Rogers, 1st and 2nd streets after an earlier 4–5 vote fails, allowing the Hopewell Phase I East platting process to move ahead. [BSB coverage]
• 2022-04-xx Phase I East alley-vacation failure. The Bloomington City Council rejects the RDC’s alley-vacation request on a 4–5 vote, delaying platting for the first city-controlled phase of the former hospital-site redevelopment. [BSB coverage]
• 2022-02-05 Naming: Hopewell. Bloomington announces “Hopewell” as the name of the new neighborhood to be built on the former IU Health hospital site, drawing on the history of Hopewell House and Isaac Hopewell, while the name “Hopewell Subdivision” appears on the RDC plat headed to the plan commission. [copy of city news release] [BSB coverage]

2021

• 2021-12-05 IU Health move. IU Health moves operations from the 2nd-and-Rogers hospital to its new facility off the SR 46 bypass, triggering the final stage before demolition and transfer of the old hospital site to Bloomington under the $6.5 million land deal. [BSB coverage]
• 2021-11-15 1st Street reconstruction. The Bloomington RDC approves a small increase to the roughly $4.9 million 1st Street reconstruction budget, preparing to turn 1st Street through the former hospital site into a narrower two-way neighborhood street with parking, trees and wider sidewalks. [BSB coverage]
• 2021-10-04 Naming and branding contract. The Bloomington RDC approves an $82,500 Borshoff contract to facilitate public engagement on naming, branding and marketing the hospital redevelopment site, because “Hospital Redevelopment Site” is not intended to be the long-term neighborhood name. [hospital-site project page] [BSB coverage]
• 2021-06-07 Phase I East design. The Bloomington RDC approves a $1,048,880 Shrewsberry and Associates contract for Phase I East design work, including survey, demolition, Madison Street extension, greenway and infrastructure work for the first redevelopment phase. [copy of master plan] [BSB coverage]
• 2021-01-13 Master plan. The Bloomington Hospital Site Redevelopment Master Plan lays out a mixed-use neighborhood framework with greenway streets, development blocks, public space and hundreds of new homes, giving later Hopewell phases their template. [copy of master plan] [BSB coverage]

2020

• 2020-12-07 Kohr building and project management. The Bloomington RDC keeps the Kohr Administration Center on a possible preservation track and approves recommendations for agreements with SB Friedman and CORE Planning Strategies for hospital-site financial analysis and project-management work. [BSB coverage]
• 2020-11-22 Rezoning sessions. Bloomington planning staff wraps up public sessions on citywide rezoning that include proposed R4 zoning for part of the old hospital site, setting up plan commission debate in early 2021. [BSB coverage]
• 2020-11-16 Corner lot purchase. The Bloomington RDC votes unanimously to buy the vacant southeast-corner lot at 2nd and Rogers streets for not more than $350,000, rounding out the former hospital redevelopment area beyond the main IU Health transfer. [BSB coverage]
• 2020-04-15 Zoning map timing. The Bloomington City Council unanimously approves the UDO conversion map and technical amendments, while city staff says a new zoning map for the old hospital area is unlikely before 2021 because the site needs a separate public planning process. [BSB coverage]
• 2020-03-02 Master-planning contract. The Bloomington RDC approves a $410,000 master-planning agreement with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for the 24-acre old hospital site, requiring analysis of development blocks, circulation, transit connections, pedestrian and bicycle corridors, parking and infrastructure. [BSB coverage]
• 2020-02-17 Master-planning placeholder. The Bloomington RDC adds a $500,000 master-planner placeholder and raises the hospital-site redevelopment project estimate from about $6.8 million to $10 million, reflecting the $6.5 million purchase price plus planning, due diligence and potential infrastructure costs. [BSB coverage]

2019

• 2019-11-18 Master-planning RFI. The Bloomington RDC issues a request for information for a hospital-site master planner, drawing 23 respondents before the city later selects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for the redevelopment plan. [BSB coverage]

2018

• 2018-xx-xx Hospital-site redevelopment setup. The Bloomington RDC approves Resolution 18-10 to envision reuse of the Legacy IU Health Bloomington Hospital Site and Resolution 18-31 to approve the purchase, establishing the formal redevelopment project that later becomes Hopewell. [copy of 2023 offering packet] [BSB coverage]
• 2018-xx-xx IU Health sale agreement. IU Health agrees to sell the former 2nd-and-Rogers hospital site to Bloomington for $6.5 million, starting the land-transfer path for the later Hopewell neighborhood. [BSB coverage]

2015

• 2015-xx-xx Replacement hospital decision. IU Health decides to build a replacement hospital on Indiana University land off the SR 46 bypass, creating the condition for the later transfer, demolition and redevelopment of the 2nd-and-Rogers hospital site. [BSB coverage]

The following are RDC resolution numbers that should ideally be used to find the original documents, upload them to BloomDocs, create new timeline points and interleave them into the existing timeline.

24-79 Approval of Amended Design Agreement for Hopewell West

24-74 Approval of Change Order Package #2 for 1st Street Reconstruction

24-71 Second Addendum to Agreement with VET for Environmental Services

24-70 Approval of Additional Funding for Site Furnishings for Hopewell East

24-69 Approval of Change Order Package #4 for Hopewell East

24-67 Agreement for Public Art in Hopewell East with Jonathan Racek (Boonyama LLC)

24-65 Notice of Offering for Hopewell South Block 9 & 10

24-64 Service Agreement with Woods Electrical for 714 S Rogers and Hopewell

24-63 Agreement with Belcher Fencing for Hopewell West

24-62 Amendment to Agreement for Security Patrols to Extend Term

24-60 Amendment to Agreement with U3

24-59 Approval to Pay Water Meter Fee for Hopewell East

24-58 Second Amendment to Agreement with J.S. Held

24-56 Agreement with Duke for 1st Street Lighting

24-55 Procurement and Installation of Park Cameras for Hopewell East

24-54 Relocation of Duke Power Lines in Hopewell East

24-53 Amended Preliminary Design Agreement for Hopewell West

24-52 Amended READI Grant Agreement for Hopewell West

24-51 Change Order Package #3 for Hopewell East

24-50 Change Order #2 for Hopewell South (Demolition of Blocks 8, 9, and 10)

24-49 Amended Project Review and Approval Form

24-42 Addendum to Agreement with Ann-Kriss for 714 S Rogers

24-41 Addendum to Agreement with VET for Environmental Services

24-38 Fifth Amendment to Agreement for Security Patrols

24-36 Approval of Hopewell West Secondary Plat

24-35 Approval of Change Order Package #2 for the Hopewell East Project

24-32 Agreement with Ann-Kriss to Secure 714 S Rogers Remediation

24-26 Repairs to Preserve Kohr Building for Redevelopment

24-25 Agreement with VET Environmental for 714 S Rogers Remediation

24-21 Fourth Amendment to Agreement for Security Patrols

24-19 Approval of Funding for Monitoring Service for Security Cameras at Hopewell

24-18 Approval of Change Order 1 to Agreement with Renascent, Inc. for Demolition of Hopewell Blocks 8, 9, and 10.

24-17 Approval of Notice of Intent Filing with IDEM In Accordance with Provision of Post-Closing Agreement between the City of Bloomington and IU Health

24-16 Approval of Secondary Plat for Hopewell East Project

23-98 The Green Engineer LEED ND Services Contract

23-97 Approval for Funding for Site Furnishings at Hopewell

23-96 To Accept a State Historical Marker Honoring the Local Council of Women at the Hopewell Neighborhood

23-89 VET Environmental for the Kohr Building

23-88 Third Amendment to Agreement for Security Patrols

23-87 Recommendation for Demolition of Blocks 8, 9, and 10

23-86 Purchase Single Solar Trailer for Cameras at Hopewell

23-70 Approval and Support for the Pursuit of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Neighborhood Access and Equity Program of the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods Program Grant for Hopewell

23-69 Second Amendment of Agreement for Security Patrols at Hopewell

23-68 Amendment to add Environmental Consulting to Phase I East

23-65 Amendment to add Phase I East Construction Change Order Redevelopment Commission Resolution 24-79

23-61 Amendment to Agreement with J.S. Held

23-56 Amendment to Agreement for Security Patrols

23-52 New Hopewell Website – Ten31

23-51 Parking Garage Assessment – CE Solutions

23-45 Owner’s Representative Agreement – U3 Advisors

23-42 Construction Agreement for Phase 1 East – Milestone

23-37 Preliminary Design Contract for Hopewell West – Crossroad

23-36 Amended Project Review and Approval Form

23-21 Addendum #2 to Design Contract for Phase 1 East

23-15 Tree Removal – 1st Street Reconstruction

23-116 Approval of Project Review and Approval for 1st Street Reconstruction for Hopewell

23-115 Approval of Hopewell Post-Closing Agreement

23-114 Fourth Amendment of Agreement for Security Patrols at Hopewell

23-113 Change Order Package #1 for the Hopewell East Project

22-95 Cassady Electric Lighting Relocation Phase 1 East

22-87 Change Order 1 for Phase 1 East Demolition - Renascent

22-86 Addendum to Design Agreement with Shrewsberry

22-62 Approval of Addendum to SB Friedman Agreement

22-48 Agreement for Security Patrols

22-45 Approval of Agreement for Construction Inspection – REA

22-36 Approval of Agreement for Demolition – Renascent, Inc.

22-30 Amendment to Purchase Agreement and Surrender Agreement

22-13 Sustainability Consultant Agreement – Guidon

22-103 Funding for Hopewell Signs

22-100 Duke Energy Utility Relocation

22-10 Amended Project Review and Approval Form

21-85 Addendum to 1st Street Design Contract

21-80 Agreement for Naming and Branding Services

21-45 Amended Project Review and Approval Form

21-32 Design Contract for Phase 1 East

20-93 Approval of Phase II Assessment for 413 W. 2nd Street

20-86 Purchase Agreement for 413 W. 2nd Street

20-79 Design Contract for 1st Street Reconstruction

20-12 Agreement with Master Planner – SOM

20-09 Approval of Amended Project Review Form

19-95 Approval of Fourth Amendment to Purchase Agreement

19-94 Approval to Keep Parking Garage

19-44 Approval of Third Amendment to Purchase Agreement

19-28 Approval of Funding for Due Diligence and Legal Fees

18-85 Approval of Funding for Due Diligence and Phase 2 Environmental Assessment

18-61 Approval of Funding for Phase 1 Environmental Assessment

18-31 Approval of Agreement with IU Health for Purchase of Old Hospital Site

18-17 Approval of Contract with Urban Land Institute

18-13 Project Review and Approval Form